Browse by Subject "Information Science"

Aspects of the relationship between the field of music and a sample of its periodical literature from 1952 through 1987 are examined in exploratory and confirmatory analyses that answer four research questions. These ...

As the structure of knowledge grows in both scope and specificity, the conduct of research is also changing. Increasingly, researchers are addressing problems by importing and exporting information, methods, and tools ...

This thesis describes a novel approach to machine learning, based on the principle of learning by reasoning. Current learning systems have significant limitations like brittleness, i.e. the deterioration of performance on ...

A citation analysis was performed on a subset of the information science literature to determine the impact of linguistic theory on information science. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were employed to show the ...

The purpose of this study is to examine to what extent the classification number, title, and subject heading fields in catalog records overlap each other in providing subject access points (SAPs), to determine the unique ...

This study examines the relationship between the attitude of academic library professionals toward the level of participative management used by immediate supervisors in academic libraries in the United States, and the ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the library journal use and journal citation use in the medical sciences. The journal use study was conducted in the Library of Veterans General ...

Over the course of the summit, three themes were prominent across the presentations and discussion: advancing professional education, coordination across disciplines and sectors, and key educational challenges. Each of ...

The Data Curation Research Summit consisted of four sessions, which followed opening contextual remarks provided by the organizers of both the DCRS and the previous Bloomsbury workshop. The first session was focused on ...

The overarching goal of this project was to make some significant advance toward a theoretical explanation of observable instances of communication in organizations and in social collectives more generally. The principal ...

The major goal of this research was to investigate the role of the information specialist as an active team member in an academic scientific research setting. The objectives of the study focused on the impact and acceptance ...

The contribution of Philippine scientists to the world periodical literature, and the sources cited by these scientists, were investigated. Eleven research questions provided focus for the study. A major source of data was ...

The landscape of scientific production and scholarly communication is changing: Networked connectivity, the availability of data in digital forms and the development of computing tools are helping to bring about changes ...

Many aspects of managing collection/item metadata relationships are critical to sustaining collection value over time. Metadata at the collection-level not only provides context for finding, understanding, and using the ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a new system for documentation of musical instrument collections that would standardize the list of information that is kept on each instrument and generate a format for information ...

This dissertation concerns the relations between technology and social space. It traces, on the one hand, modernist approaches to these questions; but then, on the other hand, attempts to find alternative ways to approach ...

This study tested the hypothesis that the vocabulary of a discipline whose major emphasis is on concrete phenomena will, on the average, have fewer synonyms per concept than will the vocabulary of a discipline whose major ...

The objective of this thesis is to design a new classification-tree algorithm which will outperform current algorithms with superior decision trees. The problem of generating a classification tree with the minimum path ...

Originally focused on scientific data, the data curation community is now taking up the curation problems of humanities data as well. Sharing concepts and terminology across these domains should be valuable for both the ...

Information work was examined in order to identify the structure and applications needed in the redesign of an existing print document to a hypermedia journal (h-journal). The h-journal, conceptualized as a new genre of ...